News for October 15

News for this (short) week.

The class talked a lot about trees and leaves this week. The students collected leaves and looked that them with magnifying glasses. We raked the leaves into a big pile and jumped into the pile! We read books about why trees are important to the world and learned a song about how leaves fall in autumn. A video of this song can be found at the end of this posting.

We started Room 101 handwriting/phonics program this week by learning the capital letters F and E. Through using hands-on manipulatives, songs and gestures the children can now recognize the letters, write the letters and "read" the sounds of the letters.

The classes finished the "Thanks for" community books this week. Their words will be typed and put into book form and put into the reading corner.

Each student created a new colourful drawing for the class "October" bulletin board. The students are now telling more detailed stories about their artwork.
Another new song for this week was "And the Green Grass Grew All Around". It is a song with a growing pattern of details based on the structure of a tree.














As ususal, the details of the books read aloud this week can be found at our companion blog at:
http://planet5books.blogspot.com.